One wonderful project which could really use some design work is www.gutenberg.org, especially the distributed proofreaders system — I can’t imagine just how many people want to contribute but are put off by the incomprehensible #ui

One #ux fail I’m seeing more and more is the “we’ve got a different version of this site for your locality! Would you like to go to it?” whole-page overlay on permalink pages. So many problems:

Why do you have multiple versions of the same site if the content is equally valuable on either one (e.g. recipe sites)?

If language is the reason (I have never seen this) exactly why can’t you internationalize the UI and offer some sort of auto-translation of the content? Or leave the translation to me/my browser whilst having a small, unobtrusive banner letting me know I might be able to find similar content in my native language.

If I’ve followed a permalink, I want to see that content. Offering me a redirect to a generic homepage is useless

sophiedennis looks like it went really well! Did anyone video it? Morpeth rant looks like a nice tune, I’ll try learning that on the gurdy this evening.

The Unquiet Grave is one of my favourite traditional songs — have you heard the Dubliners’ version? I think my parents had a wonderful live recording of it on a cassette tape which I can no longer find :(